Hart notes that the industry is looking at a “global demand of 6 million nanotechnology workers by 2020; however, only 400,000 nanotech workers are currently in the global workforce, and most of them are at the Ph.D. level conducting some form of research. For myriad of emerging nanotech companies to become commercially viable entities, they must find non-Ph.D. human capital. Few nanotech companies could sustain long-term commercial success if non Ph.D.-based human capital was unavailable.”

“The NanoProfessor System has been used by faculty and college and high school students for defined experiments as well as independent research. It is an amazing set of equipment—it is hard to keep students away from it, and we have now set up additional lab time for students to use the equipment outside of the designated class time,” said Newberry, who also serves as the director of Nano-Link, a Midwest regional center whose primary mission is providing topical, modularized format nanoscience content for use by high school and college educators as well as by industry professionals.

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